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An introductory VR course for undergraduates incorporating foundation, experience and capstone

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 1

Pages 197 - 200

https://doi.org/10.1145/1047124.1047417

Published: 23 February 2005 Publication History

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This paper presents the structure, pedagogy and motivation for an introductory undergraduate course in Virtual Reality. The course is offered as an elective at the 400-level, hence students taking the course are juniors and seniors who have completed a substantial portion of their Computer Science curriculum. The course incorporates multiple components of VR theory and practice, including hardware and software survey and analysis, human perception, and applications. It also contains a semester-long, hands-on development component utilizing a specific virtual reality environment. In addition, because VR is a broad, multidisciplinary field of study, the course provides an ideal environment for incorporating capstone elements that allow undergraduate students to tie together many of the computing principles learned during their undergraduate academic careers.

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An introductory VR course for undergraduates incorporating foundation, experience and capstone
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 37, Issue 1

2005

562 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1047124

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SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 2005
610 pages
ISBN:1581139977
DOI:10.1145/1047344
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Ithaca College
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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